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Five years ago it seemed like Uncle Lucius had run its course. They had torn a swath out of the Texas roots music scene over a 13 year run, worn out 5 vans and recorded 4 albums, and grown a reputation at home and abroad as a thrilling, dynamic live act. Long-time fans were certain they'd be a massive global hit. The only question was when.
Growing families demanded their fathers' attention, and years of touring started to feel like circles around a drain. The tide went out, and they folded up their sails.

The audience had other ideas. Interest in the band continued to grow during their absence from the touring circuit. Pro athletes used their songs for walk on music, and top-rated television shows featured their music during pivotal scenes.

​"We should have broken up years ago," they joked.

They never intended to reunite. Some things are not up to us. intention is well & good, but some people are made to play together, meant to create together. And intuition was their intention, all along.

The tides had transferred, the forces realigned. Uncle Lucius was a dream, first materialized over dank nights at the Horseshoe Lounge, drinking cheap beer with Dixie while the jukebox moaned. It crystallized on endless highway drives and onstage fever dreams. It felt like part of the past, but where one van breaks down, another van comes rolling up.

After a five year hiatus, the band will be bringing their methods of soul, joy, and thunder to select stages across the country. All we've got is now.

Uncle Lucius

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Whether traveling to gigs on horseback or by tour bus, Americana mavens The Brothers Comatose forge their own path with raucous West Coast renderings of traditional bluegrass, country and rock ‘n’ roll music. The five-piece string band is anything but a traditional acoustic outfit with their fierce musicianship and rowdy, rock concert-like shows.

The Brothers Comatose is comprised of brothers Ben Morrison (guitar, vocals) and Alex Morrison (banjo, vocals), Steve Height (bass, vocals), Philip Brezina (violin), and Greg Fleischut (mandolin). When they’re not headlining The Fillmore for a sold-out show or appearing at Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival, the band is out on the road performing across America, Canada, Australia, and hosting their very own music festival, Comatopia, in the Sierra foothills.

The Brothers Comatose

Boston-based band Couch infuses pop with funk, rock, and R&B/soul. Their vibrant sound is further defined by the members’ backgrounds in jazz, a cappella, and musical theatre.

Until Spring 2021, Couch members were scattered across the country at various universities; they tackled the challenges of being a “long-distance” band, writing and even recording virtually for three years. Despite these challenges, they celebrated the release of their debut EP, “COUCH,” in February 2021 as well as three new singles and a 20-city headline tour in 2022.

The band injects each track with their signature flavor: expressive horns, warm vocals, and bubbling synths—crafting an oasis of joy for musicians and non-musicians alike. Stay up to date on their activity by following them on Instagram, Facebook, and TikTok!

Couch

Masquerade presents...
SPY
w/ Toner, Spaced, Science Man

The Beaches

Friday October 13 @ Aisle 5

Speakeasy presents...
Upchuck (album release show)
w/ CDSM, Funerol
$18 - $20 / All Ages / 8pm

On the forefront of Atlanta’s thriving punk community, Upchuck are bound together by a purity of intention, an organic loyalty to a thick knot of uncalculated friendships, struggles, and desires.
These are songs about the joy of continuing to live, songs that find each other in the rush of a
crushing reality, propelling the listener onward towards a collective release. Themes of surviving through the night, youth-blinded love and chaotic street protests are subsumed under a single unifying thread: the needs we have for one another, our shared hunger for connection. In a world saturated with arbitrary rules and paper-thin moralism, Upchuck offer freedom through sensation, a type of unserious transcendence found through the swirl of bodies melting into one another in the passion of dance.
Today they’ve announced their new album Bite the Hand That Feeds, coming October 13 via
Famous Class. Its opening track and lead single “Freaky” places frontwoman Kaila
Thompson’s (KT) self-described alter-ego front and center, riffing upon her hunger to let loose
and lean into the open-ended freedom of the long, chaotic night. It’s a cry that places joy front and center, carving out a space to live loudly in the face of daily struggles. Upchuck’s signature blend of high-impact style is put on full, muscular display as the track jolts with weaving jungle-rhythms that evoke the finer side of oddball-punk forebears. Formed in 2018 through shared connections in Atlanta’s teeming skate scene, Upchuck’s
musical aspirations have always been uncomplicated. They play for each other, and for anyone who is willing to move alongside them—there are no trappings of genre worship or social politicking in their sound, only an open spirit of friendly connection. 2022 saw the release of their first LP, Sense Yourself (Famous Class), which spread like wildfire across the scene and landed
them tours alongside Amyl and the Sniffers, Negative Approach, OFF! and others.
For their follow up, Upchuck absconded to SoCal to record Bite the Hand That Feeds, enlisting the production talents of Ty Segall and  the airy reprieve of his secluded Topanga Canyon home studio. Upchuck credits Segall, who recorded the entire record live to tape over the span of five days, with helping to elevate the arrangements of their second record to bold new heights. The album’s razor tight focus was forged in the fire of Upchuck’s live shows, speaking directly to the power of their in-person presence—these are songs meant to be heard pressed up against a barricade, blasted through dimed guitar amps placed so close to your ears that you can practically reach out and touch them. Live footage of Upchuck’s set is an undeniable  spectacle within itself: before a single note is hit, oceans of teenage degenerates, punks, hoodie laden indie kids, and sneaker clad skaters. Upchuck places heavy emphasis upon the special quality
of  these shared moments with the crowd, often putting on their own shows in repurposed
locations.
Speaking on the importance of live performance to the band’s overall outlook, KT does not mince words: “With all of the shit life throws at you every day, sometimes I just need to release something—I need to feel freaky, to lean into my wild alter-ego. That’s what we want to  give other people too—we wanna create a space for people to come and work out whatever has been dragging them down, but  together, all at once.”
Lyrically, Bite the Hand That Feeds is passionately impressionistic, following the reflections of a charmingly unreliable narrator as she clocks the shortcomings of the world around her. In the words of KT, “I’m trying to point things out as I see them, but without critiquing anyone—I see the ways certain people act and feel like I’ve got to say something about it, but I’m not trying to
pretend like I don’t act the same way sometimes. It’s all you do you, live and let live.”
Its heaviest moments are counteracted by bursts of goofy levity, injecting natural breaths of fresh air into the LP’s frantic cadence The trials of moving from day to day are stripped of petty moralizing, clearing mental space to reflect upon the pleasures and desires that make it all worth going through in the first place. The album offers a sonic portrait of what it feels like to be young and caught up in the thrill of it all, coursing  between ripping dance grooves and thundering dirges, anti-self-serious crowd anthems and charming pop hooks.
With Bite the Hand That Feeds, Upchuck isn’t trying to tell anyone how to live. Rather, they are
simply trying to find a way to make life more worth living for both themselves and their
friends—if the music compels you to move, you might as well consider yourself their friend too.

Upchuck

Cian Ducrot

Saturday October 14 @ Aisle 5
Cian Ducrot
The Victory Tour
w/ Braden Bales
7pm / $18 - $22 / All Ages

Brian King
Isaiah Pringle
Arden Campbell
Emily Holden
Kahleal White
Storhm Artiste
William Childress
Patrick O’Malley

Not Bad; Quite Good!

Citizen Soldier, (Acoustic) w/ Special Guests

Masquerade presents...

Ricky Hil
Tuesday October 24 at Aisle 5
Doors at 7pm / $13 - $15 / All Ages

Aisle 5

Aisle 5

Uncle Lucius

The Brothers Comatose

Couch

Spy

The Beaches

Upchuck

Cian Ducrot

Not Bad; Quite Good!

Citizen Soldier, (Acoustic) w/ Special Guests

Ricky Hil

Uncle Lucius

The Brothers Comatose

Couch

Spy

The Beaches

Upchuck

Cian Ducrot

Not Bad; Quite Good!

Citizen Soldier, (Acoustic) w/ Special Guests

Ricky Hil